Some of you may be aware BOINC uses Whetstone and Dhrystone for its quick-and-dirty benchmark (reported on the host details page). I found this article helpful while trying to understand my own integer scores:

https://www.johnloomis.org/NiosII/dhrystone/ECLDhrystoneWhitePaper.pdf

The author, Alan Weiss, also writes computer science textbooks. Enjoy--BGU